Ex-US President Donald Trump watched last year’s Capital riot on TV at the White House, ignoring his children and aides who “begged him” to rebuke the mob, a congressional inquiry has heard.
The primetime hearing was told Mr. Trump did not place a single call to law enforcement or national security staff.
He was motivated by “his selfish desire to stay in power”, the inquiry alleged.
Last night, the House of Representatives select committee used its eighth hearing of the summer to draw a timeline of Mr Trump’s activities over 187 minutes on 6 January 2021 as a mob of his supporters raided Congress.
The panel is seeking to build a case that Mr. Trump, a Republican, acted illegally in a bid to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2020 presidential election. END